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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"middle and high school students"”.
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Introducing engineering and design to homeschooled middle and high school students
In this thesis, the researcher organized and taught an introduction to engineering and design course to her local middle and high schools. Inspired by an industry experience and MIT resources, she developed a curriculum that incorporated interactive activities and culminated into a design challenge …
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An examination of perceptions of ethnoviolence among urban middle and high school students
… of ethnoviolence experiences among urban middle and high school students in six Michigan public school districts in the County of Wayne. Student participants represented a cross section of a diverse ethnic and racial school population, and were enrolled in grades ranging from the 8th to …
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Minority Middle and High School Students' Interest in Science: An Exploration of Teachers' Perceptions
<p>A high school teacher conducted a study about minority middle and high school students’ interest in science. The problem was to find out why African American and Hispanic students were showing very little interest in science. The researcher used four middle school science teachers and nine high …
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Cyber bullying among Arab American and other ethnic groups and its relationship to self-esteem and academic functioning of middle and high school students
<p>With the onset of the Internet and Smartphones entered cyber bullying, which is prevalent among teenagers. Cyber bullying is defined as “the willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices” (Hinduja & Patchin, 2009, p. 5).</p> <p>The …
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Information Technology Career Decision Making: Validating Models of Self-Authorship in Middle and High School Students Enrolled in Upward Bound and Talent Search Programs in Rural Appalachia
Information Technology (IT) jobs are in demand in the United States and rural Appalachian communities are attracting IT businesses. The need to fill IT jobs creates a workforce opportunity for these communities where students have limited access to academic and career resources. The Upward Bound …
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A meta-analysis of service learning research in middle and high schools.
… between service learning innovations and improved academics, self-concept, and social or personal growth in middle and high school students. Meta-Analysis is employed to arrive at effect-size estimates for each construct. A historical overview of service learning is presented and a …
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An exploration of the lived social, emotional, and academic experiences of obese adolescents within three conceptual frameworks using mixed methods research
… to explore the experiences of obese adolescents and to investigate middle and high school students' attitudes toward obese students. During phase one, quantitative data was collected through the Attitude Toward Obese Persons (ATOP) survey. The survey research sample was 1448 middle and high …
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Three dimensional terrain editing in StarLogo TNG
… programming language designed to create models and simulations that are used to help middle and high school students understand mathematical and scientific concepts. However, there is a desire to use the program to help facilitate game creation but the tools do not exist. This thesis evaluates …
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Sullivan County K-12 Administrators' Perceptions and Attitudes Regarding Harassment and the Associated Legal Liability.
<p>All students should be guaranteed a learning environment that is free from all forms of harassment that negatively affect the school climate as well as the learning environment.</p><p>The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the perceptions and attitudes of Sullivan County, …
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An Examination into the Learning Pattern Preferences of Students in Special Education
As educational professionals strive to help students become efficient and effective learners, they must assist in the development of student learning strategies and a greater understanding of the learning process. The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the learning pattern preferences …
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Hooked on Nico-Teen: The Youth Vaping Epidemic
Between 2014 and 2018, the nicotine consumption market was irreversibly transformed with the boom of electronic cigarettes. Although these devices initially hit the market as a safe alternative to cigarettes that would help current smokers to quit, the product quickly spread to middle and high …
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The Impact of Mindfulness on Mental and Emotional Health, Physical Fitness, and Academic Performance
… has indicated promising results with mindfulness and mental health. This study examines the relationship between mindfulness and mental health, physical fitness, and academic performance for middle and high school students enrolled in health and physical education courses. The Calm app was …
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Learning from Experience: An Interactive and Ethical Curriculum for Teaching Reinforcement Learning
As AI becomes prevalent in society, AI education and AI literacy are also increasingly important fields. Reinforcement learning (RL) plays and will continue to play an intense role in many systems, including online advertising, self-driving cars, and personalized tutoring. There is a corresponding …
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A Natural Pairing: Social Justice and Theatre Education
… justice curricula are often solely geared toward middle and high school students. I intend to prove that a social justice curriculum can be creatively paired with a theatre curriculum. I also intend to prove that social justice can be taught as young as pre-kindergarten. I will design a social …
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Reflections on Teaching and Host Mothering Chinese Secondary Students: A Novice ESL Teacher’s Diary Study and Autoethnography
<p>In the summer of 2012, 29 students ages 12-17 came from China to Spokane with a special three-week teaching program for intensive English language instruction and community field trips. Since they were middle and high school students, they had been studying English from four to 13 years in their …
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SimLogo : improving simulations in StarLogo TNG
… as a means of improving computer literacy and programming skills in middle and high school students. The original goal of StarLogo TNG was to make computer programming more accessible to students by designing a programming framework, StarLogoBlocks, which could graphically represent the …
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Assessing Elementary Pupils' Attitudes Toward Technology
… into how to achieve this literacy. The Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology (STL) is intentional about ensuring technological literacy in all students. Instilling this knowledge in elementary students is an emerging field that requires assessment tools …
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Barriers to and Motivations for Curriculum-Based Education Program Participation at Great Smoky Mountains National Park
… provides quality education programs to local schools. In order to continue this success and expand programs to reach more middle and high school students, a mixed methods study was conducted to help better understand why local middle and high school teachers participate or not in park …
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Using Idiomatic Expressions as a Stimulus for Art Therapy with Adolescents With Asperger's and High-Functioning Autism
… for adolescents with either Asperger's or High-Functioning Autism diagnosis. The goal of the group is for the participants to better understand their collective experience as individuals with life-long diagnoses of either Asperger's or High-Functioning Autism and promote empathy and …
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Social bonding and delinquency: a multivariate analysis
… the refinement of some of the basic indicators and the addition of many relevant variables as indicated by recent research. A synthesized model is proposed and six general propositions are derived: (a) attachment to significant others, commitment to conventional institutions, belief in …
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